I have two selfish reasons to be delighted that Alexander Amini won the overall prize at the young scientist:

1. He is a local boy from Castleknock College (although he only recently moved to Ireland)
2. His mother Lisa is a colleague in IBM

I tried a few times to see Alexander's project when I was at the exhibition yesterday, but I was not able to get near the stand because each time I came by he was busy talking to judges - I should have realized then that he was in the winning for a big prize. I will try meeting him again today, but in the meantime here is a short video of him talking about the project.